We have a home based embroidery business in San Diego, Calif.Over the past 9 years I have been playing and learning how to usedifferent embroidery software to digitize. I like using Embird the bestat this time. For 9 years I have been teaching Embird to small groups and one on one. If you live in the San Diego area or will be visiting for a few days let me know and I can put together a class for your needs. See email, and address below to get a hold of me.

Bookmark this site and check back often, as I will be introducing newtutorials as time permits.

The following pictures are in our sewing & embroidery room

The big toy a Happy HCD-1501

Her little toy, an Baby Lock Ellegante.

As you can see I can not pass up a sale on embroidery thread.

When I started this, I was only going to do the tutorial call Bear Paw. I was going to place this on a GeoCities free web page for everyone to see and use, and delete after about a week. Four minutes after I posted the web address on the Yahoo group, there were so many people visiting the site, so GeoCities closed me down. I received an email from Geocities telling me that I had used up all of my data transfer for the next 72 hours and was told it would be 72 hours before anyone else could see my web page. In the mean time, I’m getting hundreds of emails wanting to know if I had put the correct web address up, so, I thought about it for the next 2 days. Since it was a good tutorial I decided to get a pay web page. The thing that caused issues with this was, in the free site I used my own html code. On the pay site I had to spend a full day just learning how to use their sites builder program. Now I had to redo the Bear Paw tutorial using the Site builder program. I started getting lots of emails from people wanting to know if I could make a PDF file of the tutorial so they could work off line. I didn’t know the first thing about making a PDF file, so I started emailing other people with web pages asking what program they used, and spent hours doing a search on Google trying to find a program that I could learn to make PDF files. What started out as a fun tutorial turned into buying two more programs and then learning how to use them. I had to learn how to zip a PDF file in order to upload it to the web page. After paying for these new programs and learning how to use everything, I had my Bear Paw tutorial up with unlimited data transfer. Now everyone could visit all the time. Now that I have all of the data transferred I decided to do some more tutorials. I enjoy doing these tutorials, but they are not easy to do. I use several pictures in order to make the tutorials for those just starting less complicated. The Redwork tutorial alone took me about 8 hours to complete, getting the spelling and English correct. At this time I have 21 tutorials on this web site and I am already working on some more.

When I did the first tutorial it was going to be free. But since then, I have been spending money and lots of hours doing these tutorials. So if you would like to help, you can take a U.S. one dollar bill and mail it to me. This would be a one time thing only and would help me pay the monthly web site bill. 21 tutorials for one dollar is only .05 cent per tutorial. Now that is a good deal. Tell me where you can buy a tutorial for 5 cents? Any donations would be greatly appreciated.

You can send it to the address below.

Bill Armstrong8439 Lake Baca Dr.San Diego, Ca.92119USA

Thanks for the helpBill

Several people have requested to make donations to my web site through "PayPal". If you wish to do this, click on the "Make a Donation" button below.

LINK TO OTHER TUTORIALS

I have ask in a nice way if you like my tutorial, could you send me $1.00 this would work out to 5 cent per tutorial. It would help me pay for the web site and give me a little bit for doing the tutorial. If you check the counter at the bottom of this page you will see that their been over 44,302 peoples visited my site in the past 8 years and only 157 people has sent me anything. I even put a Paypal link up so peoples in other part of the world such as Australia can made a Donation. The amount that I have got so far " $ 385.00 " is so small. That I thinking about sending it back to the people and click Delete on this site. And it will be gone forever. The amount of time I have spend doing these tutorials is not hours but days. I have seen other sites that charge anywhere from $ 5.00 to $ 50.00 for one tutorial.

I enjoy doing for others and people seem to like what I have here. I am hoping that at least some of you will donate what they feel my work and time is worth to them. Just click on the Make a Donation button above.

If you choose to send me money using the mail service, If you send your email address or if you have already sent some, send me your email. And anytime I have a new tutorial I will send you a email letting you know about it.